News Desk
ISLAMABAD: Amid the ongoing political instability and the issue of dollar inflow, and energy shortage, the 100-index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) recorded a bearish trend on Tuesday while losing 185.26 points, witnessing a negative change of 0.45 percent and closed at 40,630.64 as compared to 40,815.90 points on the last trading day.
As many as 201,058,817 shares were traded during the day against 242,173,251 shares on Monday, whereas the price of shares witnessed at Rs 4.977 billion as compared to Rs 7.278 billion on the previous day.
Bearish trend in the market
As many as 333 companies managed their shares in the stock market, where 113 shares witnessed gains and 192 sustained losses, while the share price of 28 companies traded without change.
The three companies that were traded on top including Hascol Petrol, and Sui North Gas with 20,576,000 shares at Rs6.64 per share, 16,289,075 at Rs1.24 per share, and 14,289,433 shares at Rs41.58 per share respectively.
Another company Premium Textile maintained a maximum increase of Rs39.68 per share price, and closed at Rs575.03, while Colgate Palm witnessed as the runner-up with an increase of Rs30.01 in its per share price to Rs1,900.01.
Meanwhile, Sapphire Textile recorded a maximum decline of Rs 66.17 per share and closed at Rs 1,100.00, followed by Sanofi-Aventis which witnessed a decrease of Rs 44.40 to close at Rs 955.60.
